| # | Name | Email | Comments |
|---|
| 851 | Dr. Hannah Wittman | hwittman@sfu.ca | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| 852 | Jaime Borrero | j.borrero@cgiar.org | |
| 853 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 854 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 855 | Francisco A.P. Campos | bioplant@ufc.br | |
| 856 | Germain Lefebvre, agr. | germain.lefebvre@hotmail.com | It's now the time, more than anytime in the history, to support the developement of agriculture in the developping countries. Let's put some of our tax money in that. |
| 857 | Prof. Roger M. Spanswick | rms6@cornell.edu | While it is doubtful that biofuels have an effect on the current prices of wheat and rice, it is likely that they will do so in the future via competition for land. In any case there is an urgent need for basic and applied research to increase crop yields. |
| 858 | Hannah Hope | hannah_hope@hotmail.com | |
| 859 | Debbie Humphries | dhumphries@igc.org | Funding for agricultural research and development is critical in ensuring adequate agricultural response to the climate and population changes facing the world. Please continue the support of the CGIAR centers and make funding for those centers a priority in the current fiscal year. |
| 860 | Ximena Manjarres Díaz | Pachablanca05@hotmail.com | |
| 861 | Jose Ignacio Roa V. | j.roa@cgiar.org | |
| 862 | Jorge Luis Cabrera | j.cabrera@cgiar.org | |
| 863 | Angela Ma. Molina | a.m.molina@cgiar.org | |
| 864 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 865 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 866 | Guy Davenport | g.davenport@cgiar.org | |
| 867 | Andrew Bent | afbent@wisc.edu | |
| 868 | Paul Kimani | kimanipm@nbnet.co.org | It would be most unfortunate for CG to loose this support. They need it now than ever before. It is cheaper to support food production than try to respond to food crises that are today threatening stability and lives of millions of people in the developing world. They need USAID today to continue with great work they have been doing but which is often poorly appreciated. |
| 869 | Dr. Steffen Schulz | SteffenSchulz100@gmail.com | |
| 870 | emmanuel frossard | emmanuel.frossard@ipw.agrl.ethz.ch | |
| 871 | John DeBoer | jdeboer44@yahoo.com | The GCIAR has demonstrated time and time again how their research has helped reduce world food prices and benefiit the poor and landless in the process. As a result, basic food prices showed a long term decline, farming became less profitable and a complacency sent in. Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances a crisis has now set in and no one is able to say if it will be a short- or long-term problem. Now is the time to inject more funds to (a) first better unbdersatnd what has happened, (b) carry out any needed reorganizations to better address the key problems and (c) fund the key research issues identified. |
| 872 | Marina Wissotski | Marinaw@ag.arizona.edu | research specialist, Genomics Institut, U of A |
| 873 | H.S. Bariana | h.bariana@usyd.edu.au | It will be a historic mistake to cut these funds. The financial support to the CGIAR system is essential to produce food for the world's ever increasing population. |
| 874 | Prof. Em. Martin Wolfe | wolfe@wakelyns.demon.co.uk | As an ex-Board member of CIAT and collaborator with CIMMYT and CIP, I am appalled at the planned cuts to the USAID programme and the far-reaching negative consequences that will arise in a period of increasing difficultires for agriculture and farmers. |
| 875 | John P. Klingler | klingler@cals.arizona.edu | |
| 876 | Paul J Brookhouzen | paulbrookhouzen@Yahoo.com | Global food problems are just on the horizon. We need united action by all nations to conserve good farm land and to avoid contaminating the land. Agricultural research is a much needed investment in the future needs of all citizens. |
| 877 | Peter Casier | on6tt@yahoo.com | Emergency food aid is needed, but cutting budgets in food research is cutting off the long term solution for the current food crisis. |
| 878 | Peter Okoth | p.okoth@cgiar.org | THE CGIAR is an important institution of research contributing to a reversal of soil and land degration that is globally affecting food production while at the same time researching on approprate high yielding crop cultivars intended to mitagate on depressed crop productivity. The US government should reconsider its postion of cutting funding to the CGIAR to enable the CGCentres to continue the work of developing better agriculture. This is especially a critical issue in the tropics and countries of the South. What should be stressed is that the CGIAR Centre demonstrate that indeed the lives of the poor are changing due to heri interventions. |
| 879 | Peter Moffett | pm99@cornell.edu | |
| 880 | Terry L. Kamps, Ph.D. | kampsuf1@yahoo.com | Sr. Research Biologist
University of Florida |
| 881 | Tim Caspar | johnspar@verizon.net | |
| 882 | Frank A Hilario | frankahilario@gmail.com | Even as a freelance writer, having researched and written on the CGIAR for the last 2 years, and coming from Los Baños in the Philippines, I know how valuable agricultural research has been, and still needs to be. |
| 883 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 884 | Jennifer Clifford | jmc@plantpath.wisc.edu | |
| 885 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 886 | Carl E. Pray | pray@aesop.rutgers.edu | |
| 887 | Adam Sparks | asparks@ksu.edu | |
| 888 | Dr. Narayana M. Upadhyaya | narayana.upadhyaya@csiro.au | |
| 889 | Braun Hans-Joachim | H.J.Braun@cgiar.org | Global investments in the IARC amounts to 500 mlln US$, enough to support the Iraq war for 12 hours. |
| 890 | Sophia Engel | sengel@unm.edu | |
| 891 | Anonymous | Anonymous | It will be a big blow to the research programs and worsen the scenario even more |
| 892 | Friederike Beck | hiete@gmx.de | |
| 893 | Larry Murdock | murdockl@purdue.edu | Investments in international agricultural research and development are needed now more than ever. Crop productivity needs to grow now, not shrivel. Withdrawing financial support for the CGIAR Centers is tantamount to creating drought and infertility that will last for years to come. The IARC's help hungry women, men and children in the hardscrabble places of the world learn to grow more and more nutritious food. Helping these poor and hungry food producers of the world -- as the IARC's do -- helps starve out terrorism. |
| 894 | Anonymous | Anonymous | |
| 895 | Bingxin Yu | bxyu@hotmail.com | |
| 896 | Nigel Crawford | ncrawford@ucsd.edu | |
| 897 | Sarah Beebout | s.beebout@cgiar.org | |
| 898 | Rafael I Merchan | rafamerchan@gmail.com | Now, more than ever, agricultural research, education and extension must play a central part in the development discussion of poor countries. The current food crisis, is the tip of the iceberg after decades neglecting the vital agricultural sector. Therefore, it is imperative that funding is made available for the continues research and implementation of better techniques to feed the world. |
| 899 | Andreas Printz | rivertwin@ppc-online.org | |
| 900 | Oskar Wallgren | oskar.wallgren@sei.se | |